ClayCraft

The first snow of the year has just fallen as I write this, and Christmas is drawing close. It’s a been an unforgettable year, and not for very many good reasons. We have been challenged in ways we could never have imagined, and for some businesses i

Jacqui Atkin Artichoke art p22 Linda Bloomfield Underglazes & stains p32 Doug Fitch Diary column p58 Simon Shaw Bubble vase P8 Tracey Parsons Baubles pt 2 p73 Jeni Jacques Studio potter’s journal p36 ■

Doug Fitch and I make slipware pottery. My ‘thing’ is decoration. Of all the various ways of decorating that slip offers, it is the trailing of it that fascinates me. Doug trails less often, and his methods and tools are somewhat different from mine.

Editor: Rachel Graham; claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Consultant editors: Jacqui Atkin, Kevin Millward Contributors: Jacqui Atkin, Alan Ault, Paul Bailey, Linda Bloomfield, Billy Byles, Doug Fitch, Jeni Jacques, Kevin Millward, Alan Parris, Tracey Parsons

This excellent video spends two hours in the company of Philip and Frannie Leach as they talk about their lives and their work while demonstrating their very different techniques and methods. Be prepared to start taking copious notes as they generous

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Linda Bloomfield is a scientist turned potter. More glaze recipes can be found in her books, Advanced Pottery (2011), Colour in Glazes (A&C Black 2012), The Handbook of Glaze Recipes (Bloomsbury 2014) and Science for Potters (The American Ceramic Soc

STEF BAXTER POTTERY Courses: Handbuilding & throwing day class drop-in. Night and weekend classes. 1-1 tuition & Raku classes. Suitable for all levels. Open access coming. Dates: see website Location; Govan, Glasgow stefbaxterpottery.com CLAY WORKS S

Many of us who choose clay would argue that clay actually chose us, and our ClayCraft thrower, Simon Shaw, is just one such person. We recently had a lengthy telephone conversation about his life and work. Yes, I did say telephone. Not Zoom or Skype

The constant wind and relentless November rain have swept away all but the last colours of autumn. The deciduous trees stand bare and dormant against the grey skies, with the exception of the rusty beech leaves that rattle in the breeze, and a few ye